NO00f9: Food Types

"Qi...can't help at all."

At the same time that Jiang Zhou was being tortured at the virtual training ground, Jim was taking Ji Mu through the streets of the resettlement area. After confirming that there was no way to find Icarus' help in a short time, he couldn't help but complain.

"Are you blaming someone for not being able to help?"

Hearing the man beside him talking to himself, Ji Mu couldn't help but asked curiously.

"I blame myself."

Jim pouted.

"Oh..."

Although she didn't understand what the other party meant, she nodded subconsciously, and then asked what she really cared about:

"When you guessed before that she might appear somewhere if there was snow... why did you say it wouldn't be in a place where food is produced and stored like a food warehouse, a freezer, or a hydroponic farm?"

As she spoke, she couldn't help but look around at the abandoned area where even the street lights were not on.

At this moment, the two of them had arrived at the outskirts of an abandoned building. This was originally a production area for basic maintenance equipment in the resettlement area, but after Olympus Enterprise opened the market, it was shut down due to the dumping of more cost-effective darknet technology products. Now only a piece of gradually rusting equipment is left.

"If Ms. Duanmu went to a place like a food warehouse, a freezer, or a hydroponic farm, then it would be impossible for her to not make any news that would make the news for such a month - you can refer to the person who drowned before. The gentleman in the septic tank, and the lady who released 20,000 spiders in her home. I asked a friend to search before, and there were no weird incidents in the food-related places in the resettlement area in the past month. "

As Jim spoke, he took out the night vision binoculars from the lining of his windbreaker and observed the abandoned factory not far away.

"In other words, Youxue is relatively clear-headed now, or can she restrain her desires to a certain extent?"

Hearing this, Ji Mu's eyes lit up instantly.

Jim just put down the binoculars and glanced at her. The meaning in his eyes was very obvious - it's not like you haven't seen her state with your own eyes before. How can you control your desires?

The head of the New Tenri Sect miko suddenly fell down again.

"Then since her condition is so serious, why not go to places where there is a lot of food?"

While feeling frustrated, Ji Mu couldn't help but wonder.

"According to the rules we have summarized so far, the impact of that 'parasite' on patients is to make them actively approach the things they are afraid of. Just like a snail parasitized by the double-disc fluke, it will actively climb to high places in the sun to attract Like birds."

Jim said, continuing to pick up the night vision binoculars and observe the abandoned factory in the distance.

"So according to this idea, what is Miss Duanmu really afraid of? First of all, it is definitely not normal food. After all, subjectively, she actually hopes that she can eat normally."

Ji Mu's face suddenly turned ugly, and she said in an extremely reluctant tone:

"She can't eat because she hallucinates the food being digested in her body when eating. Could it be that she actively looks for vomit or excrement..."

Speaking of this, Ji Mu couldn't help but recall the horrific death of the man in the previous file, who drowned himself in a septic tank.

Ji Mu, who felt that he could no longer continue imagining, couldn't help but cover his mouth.

Jim, who guessed what the other party was thinking of, immediately interrupted her thoughts and comforted her:

"Actually, it probably won't be as tragic as you think... After all, Miss Duanmu did not have a mental problem due to any psychological shadow, but an organic neurological disease caused by the early installation of a brain-computer interface. So at least in terms of personality , she will be more stable than other victims. "

"What does this mean?"

Ji Mu immediately asked as if he had grasped some life-saving straw.

"Before being parasitized, her cognition was no different from that of ordinary people. After all, no matter who it is, they will be nauseated to the point of vomiting after having the hallucination that food is being digested in the body, right?"

Ji Mu nodded repeatedly, waiting for his follow-up.

"In other words, the thing that Miss Duanmu is really stressed about is not simple filth, let alone food, but the matter of 'vomiting' itself. And what she will do when she is sick is probably Actively seek out and eat foods that make you vomit.”

Finally, Jim came to his own conclusion.

"Find and eat foods that will make you vomit..."

Ji Mu first repeated Jim's words, and then asked with a sad face and confusion:

"But didn't you just say that the situation wouldn't be so tragic?"

Jim just sighed and said:

"You misunderstood... I know you want to ask whether she would go near vomit or excrement. But as I just said, Miss Duanmu's understanding of the world is normal. Since If so, then she definitely doesn’t regard these digestion products as ‘food’ itself, right?”

Under the influence of that "parasite", Duanmu Youxue pursued the behavior of "vomiting" rather than the product of "vomiting".

"In other words, what she will really look for are things that can actually be regarded as normal food, but in most cases people are not willing to regard them as food, and are very likely to take more extreme eating measures. Way."

Ji Mu instantly thought of Youxue who was eating raw meat at that time.

And when Jim said this, he didn't intend to keep telling the truth anymore - he had just seen a figure flashing past a window in an abandoned factory not far away through the night vision binoculars.

"I searched for recent news on the fifth floor of the Nord Resettlement Area before, and asked my friends above to check the recent civil reports received by the Public Security Bureau, and found some news that gave me a sense of déjà vu - based on this building With the abandoned factory as the center, domestic pets were stolen in three surrounding middle-class communities.”

Jim said.

"House pets?"

Please...you...collect 6...books...!

Ji Mu seemed to realize something.

"In these cases, the rooms were invaded after the owners left home. The property in the home was intact, and the food in the refrigerator was not touched. But the pets in the home - most of the cases were cats and dogs, but There were also some hamsters, birds, etc. that were stolen, and the most critical thing is that in these cases, the surveillance equipment or security systems in the victims’ homes were hacked and offline.”

Jim put away the telescope and said:

"The people in the Public Security Bureau are still very puzzled, how can a hacker with such ability to hack into the security system be so bored as to steal some pet cats and dogs? So it is natural to characterize these cases as the activities of some extreme animal protection organizations. I didn’t care much about it.”

He said and couldn't help but sneered mockingly.

"Hacker, pet..."

Ji Mu, on the other hand, keenly grasped the key words, and she murmured:

"Youxue is just like me, she likes cute little animals very much..."

Her mind couldn't help but recall the scene where the two of them saw a stray cat on the road that couldn't walk and had to stop to feed it.

At this moment, Jim's voice rang in her ears, ruthlessly shattering those warm memories:

"In addition, I checked the community news before these cases. Some of them praised the property companies in these communities for finally taking action to control the proliferation of stray cats and dogs nearby."

Jimu's shoulders couldn't help shaking, and Jim continued:

"In other words, Miss Duanmu should have eaten up all the stray animals in those communities before starting to attack domestic pets. Or, perhaps, she changed her target because she was no longer interested in stray animals. However, If that’s the case, that would be troublesome…”

As he spoke, he opened the holster of his gun.

"Why bother?"

Although Ji Mu vaguely guessed the answer, she didn't dare to believe it, so she still asked with a glimmer of fantasy.

And Jim's answer completely shattered her remaining illusion.

"Because of the thefts of domestic pets, there were no more thefts as of a week ago."

Jim pulled out his gun and said:

"Then you think... being a house pet can no longer satisfy Miss Duanmu's needs. What taboo food will she look for next that will continue to make her feel sick?"

Ji Mu didn't reply.

Because she understood that there were two of those so-called "foods" standing here chatting right now. (End of chapter)